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Waif

발음 /weɪf/ · 품사 명사 (noun)

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한국어 뜻

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영어 정의

(British, law, archaic) An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor..

의미별 영어 정의

(British, law, archaic) An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
A very thin person, especially a young one.
A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but not persistently naturalized.
(transitive) To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.
(nautical, chiefly whaling, historical) A small flag used as a signal.
Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.

예문

waifs and strays

But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing—my, but how stupid he was!

Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared. / Far-wandered waif of other days, / Huddles for sleep in a doorway, / Homeless.

When we had done all the things there were to do, he passed out and I clung to his reassuringly solid, soft stomach—paternal, so different to the indie waifs—and cried.

It is true that Guy, Count of Ponthieu, holds fief under me, but I have no control over the laws of his realm. And by those laws, he hath right of life and death over all stranded and waifed on his coast.

[page 440] The allusion to waifs and waif-poles in the last chapter but one, necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge. […] [page 441] [A] fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other recognised symbol of possession; so long as the party waifing it plainly evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well as their intention to do so.

단어 변화형

waifs
waifing
waifed

waif 동의어

waif 반의어

Waif 사용 팁

waif의 의미, 어조와 문법이 전체 문장에 맞을 때 사용하세요. 동의어라도 모든 문장에서 바로 바꿔 쓸 수 있는 것은 아닙니다.

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자주 묻는 질문

waif의 뜻은 무엇인가요?

현재 검증된 한국어 뜻은 준비 중이며 영어 정의는 “(British, law, archaic) An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.”입니다.

waif의 동의어는 무엇인가요?

주요 동의어는 bum, stiff, casual, clochard입니다.

waif의 반의어는 무엇인가요?

가능한 반의어는 All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chubbs, chubster입니다.

waif를 문장에서 어떻게 쓰나요?